Re: Death Knights will tank as Blood in Cataclysm

Glad to see this change.

Hopefully this will make balancing dk tanks without making DKs retardedly overpowered in pvp much easier. (not saying they are overpowered now, just that they were overpowered when they didn't such at tanking.)

Re: Death Knights will tank as Blood in Cataclysm

Maybe they can finally add a bit of spice to the rotation then.

Because currently my dps rotation is very similar to my tanking rotation, which I find dulls the experience...a lot.

Oh and the bit about some dks were jealous of protection cooldowns-- Since when? And why would they be? Ours>theirs. This is obviously a bogus opinion injected into this explanation to try to make us feel better, since we all know the real reason they are limiting it to one tree is b/c they are throwing in the towel.

Re: Death Knights will tank as Blood in Cataclysm

Very nice change, but couldn't it have been frost instead.

Love blood dps :'(

Originally Posted by Hellspawnxxx

Thank god you posted that pic done by Da Vinci The vitruvian man because to be honest I had NOOOO Idea what a Human body looked liked therefor had NO idea what you were refering too. With that said the sylvari are made of lettuce. If I twist up some cabage leaves too look like a human, it doesnt make it monohuman.

Originally Posted by Kelesti

That picture has four arms and four legs. It's not a human, so it's clearly a spider.

Re: Death Knights will tank as Blood in Cataclysm

Originally Posted by Lokann

*Radiates happiness*

I agree, frost tankings mitigation sucks and there are too many people trying to do DW (im a rogue usualy so i dont wanna dual weild anymore, you may feel otherwise), unholy was great prenerf, but now you dont put out enough threat. blood has some realy good mitigation, makes it easier on the healers, a few raid buffs, and threat is from optimal dps. i see no reason why blood shouldnt be the permenant tanking tree. Good move blizz

Re: Death Knights will tank as Blood in Cataclysm

Awesome. I love tanking, i have 3 of the 4 tanking classes (though my druid is currently balance/resto i spent all of BC as a feral tank) but the only reason WHY i hadn't yet done a DK tank was exactly because of the reason they mentioned, there's tank and dps talents mixed in all three trees. That really turned me off for some reason. Additionally, i wanted to be blood-spec, so the fact that blood will be THE tanking tree... it makes me much more interested in leveling a DK alt.

Re: Death Knights will tank as Blood in Cataclysm

Which players exactly? Blood has been the superior end-game tanking tree for Death Knights since Ulduar. This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone.

Also, WOOOHOOOOOOO!!!

Although Unholy has always been my favorite spec, this will make things much better balance wise for DKs. It was a good experiment with the 3 trees, but sticking to what works seems the better way to go about it this time.